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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numiscent, post: 563974, member: 16300&quot;]I run into this problem fairly often with my own photos being stolen and used.&nbsp; First let me say that I don&#039;t have a problem if someone is selling the same coin that is in my photos.&nbsp; That is completely different than the big issue at hand which involves misrepesentation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The strangest thing I run into is that the sellers always deny that they are using my picture.&nbsp; They say it&#039;s a different coin and a different picture.&nbsp; It&#039;s so annoying to have to go out of my way to prove why it is absolutely the same image, because I know that they are already aware of this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have complained to eBay about it to a bunch of times over the years as items are located, and eBay almost always takes immediate action.&nbsp; There is an actual law about ownership and stealing images called the VERO act.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some people also use my pictures of coins for stock photos.&nbsp; That annoys me only because I wish they had simply asked permission.&nbsp; I can&#039;t picture a scenario where I would say no unless they were directly making money from it somehow and refused to include me.&nbsp; The Penny Lady had a picture of a 1909-S VDB on her web site&#039;s collage that was mine. I sold it on eBay several years ago. It&#039;s kind of funny to see my images pop up like that and realize how much of a geek I must be to know the exact coin and why it is my photo, even before I dig out the file. Yeah it bothers me that she didn&#039;t ask, but she seems to be an honest person otherwise so I didn&#039;t have a problem with it. Stock photos taken that are not intended to represent coins for sale are not nearly as unethical as someone selling a coin that they don&#039;t have. </p><p><br /></p><p>Media such as photographs are automatically copyrighted to the person who authored them; there are no measures one needs to take in order to make sure they are copyrighted.&nbsp; So saying &quot;there was no copyright on the picture I saw&quot; is like stealing something off the shelf of a store and saying you didn&#039;t pay because there was no price tag.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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